Wellington's Queen Victoria Monument is an early 20th-century statue of Queen Victoria by British sculptor Alfred Drury. Copied after Drury's earlier 1903 statue in Portsmouth, England, Victoria is de
Queen Victoria Statue, Kent Terrace, Wellington
Queen Victoria, 1899
The Wellington statue was copied from another posthumous statue of Queen Victoria at Portsmouth. (pictured)
Monument at its original location at Post Office Square, .c. 1910
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The Waitangi crown is a commemorative crown coin struck in 1935 by the British Royal Mint for the Dominion of New Zealand to commemorate the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, often seen as New Z
Queen Victoria Monument, Wellington
…precise details. The depiction of the Treaty of Waitangi was featured on the ten shilling banknote in 1940, as well as on a discarded draft for the Waitangi commemorative crown coin. However, this depiction was subject to frequent public criticism due to historical inaccuracies, as well as presenting the treaty outside of the…
Chief Tāmati Wāka Nene, signatory of the Treaty of Waitangi
Finance Minister Gordon Coates oversaw New Zealand's coinage design over the 1930s.
A relief by John Flaxman inspired the posing of the Waitangi crown